This morning, during my routine journaling time, I realized how hard it is to put words together to write. It seems that we write all the time. I know I do, especially while I’m in school. I write assignments, memos, notes, and messages. Sometimes, when I able to stop everything and reflect, there is nothing left.
In the morning, in my current journal, I have a rule to fill up the front and back of the pages. I think I have only violated that rule once. Many times, when I sit down and start writing, the words begin to flow and I fill up those pages quite quickly. My rule for this blog is to write 250 words, and similarly, once I begin writing—even if it is a smaller subject I will begin to write a post that many times becomes one of the longer posts.
In the journal I write about my days. Many times those days, on the surface, have no interesting value at all. But once I begin writing I begin to see the action of the details. I begin to see the little things of people I saw or thoughts I thought. I can begin to see messages and sermon illustrations bursting from the images. All it takes is getting started.
So the solution to the writing challenge is simple. The solution is to open your book, or computer, and write. Once you begin writing, the words and ideas will flow.
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